Seattle

Please help Bruce Lorig!

'LorigAID' CHARITY BAKE SALE
March 3rd, 12pm on 1st Ave between Lenora & Virginia

Bruce Lorig, CEO and owner of Lorig Associates, has fallen on hard times. So desperate is his need for money, he has been forced to sue his own former receptionist, Patricia, now unemployed, in hopes of squeezing a little money out of her after she protested racism at his company.

Instead of bringing relief, this lawsuit has impoverished the developer even further, as the law firm he has hired piles on endless fees while promising him results that never come.

Please help Bruce Lorig.

Come take a fresh-baked snack and donate a penny, a nickel, or a dime – whatever you can spare.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  February 04, 2010

CONTACTS:  Mary Ann Curtis: 206-722-6057 (office); 206-409-2157 (cell)  
                      Margaret Viggiani: 206-722-2453 (office); 206-883-3053 (cell)

Organizers say campaign to save
Washington Basic Health Plan is having an impact

SEATTLE. Twenty-nine-year-old Helen Fowler has amassed $50,000 in medical bills for emergency hospitalization and surgery while on the waiting list for the Washington State Basic Health Plan. Now she’s joined the Sisters Organize for Survival (SOS) campaign to save and expand the publicly subsidized insurance that currently serves 60,000 low-income residents.

Shon Meckfessel, (local) author of Suffled How It Gush: A North American
Anarchist in the Balkans and the “fourth hiker” will be speaking and
reading at Left Bank Books, your local anarchist collective bookstore, on
Saturday, January 23rd at 7 PM. Come out and learn about the Balkans,
anarchism, and the three hikers still being held by the Iranian government.

Left Bank Books is located at 92 Pike Street on the corner of First and Pike,
right at the entrance of the Pike Place Market.

For more information, see:
Shon's interview with Democracy Now:

PLEASE FORWARD!

Saturday, January 9th, 3PM-5PM
Cascade Peoples Center (309 Pontius Ave N)
Suggested donation: $5-20

As part of a provincial and west coast speaking tour, activists from will be in town
to speak about the impacts of the Olympic Games.
Join us in an event to learn more about why opposition to the Games is
growing and how you can participate in and support the resistance.

The 2010 Winter Olympics
will take place on unceded Indigenous land. Far from being simply about
sport, the history of the Olympics is one rooted in displacement,
corporate greed, and repression. As Olympic promoters and sponsors seek
to present their sanitized corporate brand image to the world, the real

*please forward*

January 12-16, 2010

Published to coincide with the 100th Anniversary of the Spokane Free
Speech Fight, which began in November of 1909, Wanted: Men to Fill the
Jails of Spokane! tells the story of one of the first of the Industrial
Workers of the World's famous "free speech fights." Through newspaper
articles, dispatches from the scene of the fight, and personal
recollections, the voices of the men (and women!) who filled the
prisons of Spokane, Washington in the name of free speech and the One
Big Union are brought back into print.

Admission is free at all events.

* Tacoma

Tuesday, January 12, to be announced

* Olympia

Wednesday, January 13, 6pm

On Monday, November 16th, Seattle-based property developer Lorig Associates served a lawsuit against the members of a local community organization known as the Seattle Solidarity Network (SeaSol). According to its website, www.seasol.net, SeaSol is an all-volunteer workers' and tenants' group which organizes activities such as picketing, leafleting, and office delegations to pressure employers and landlords whom they believe are responsible for mistreating someone in the Network.

author: Seattle Affiliate, October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality
Oct 19, 2009 10:26 info from Seattle Indymedia

The 14th annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation will take place on Thursday, October 22, 2009 in roughly two dozen cities across the country. Seattle's contribution to this day will include:

Gather starting at 5:00pm
Rally starting at 5:30pm
March starting at approximately 6:15pm
Occidental Park (between S Washington St & S Main St and 1st Ave S & 2nd Ave S) in Seattle's Pioneer Square district.

Indymedia presents the June 2009 Indymedia NewsReal. The NewsReal is a joint effort of Indymedia and Free Speech TV. The idea is that independent videographers send in their short news videos, which are edited into a monthly show. We carry the resulting show on Indymedia Presents each month.